Chandra Gill: My Sistas, To Save Black Girls, We Must First Save Ourselves-Part 1
By Chandra Gill Easily, this article can be re-directed to address all African-American and (even) Latino youth for that matter. Or ‘better’, why not write about our young men who so desperately need to be ‘saved’ from America’s pervasively ignorant perceptions of them? Shouldn’t we seek to ‘save’…
Chandra Gill: Three Underlying Reasons Why Chicago’s Teachers Went On Strike (Part 3)
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” “History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the…
Chandra Gill: Three Underlying Reasons why Chicago’s Teachers are on Strike – Part 2
“It is a historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.” “Frankly, I have never seen as much hatred and hostility on the part of so many people.” (Dr. King in Chicago) -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. STRIKE: Reason #2 Do you know this…
